Moulmein

American  

[mool-meyn, mohl-] / mulˈmeɪn, moʊl- /

noun

1. a seaport in southern Myanmar (Burma) at the mouth of the Salween River.

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Moulmein British  

/ maʊlˈmeɪn /

noun

1. a port in S Myanmar, near the mouth of the Salween River: exports teak and rice. Pop: 390 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Farmers and politicians in Chaungzon township, just outside the southern town of Moulmein, worry that erosion in the area is being exacerbated by the ships that dredge its bed for sand each night.

From Reuters • Mar. 3, 2020

In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

In the 1920s a young would-be poet, an ex-Etonian named Eric Blair, arrived as a Burma Police recruit and was posted to several places, culminating in Moulmein.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

Kipling never visited Mandalay, having imagined it from a brief sojourn in a city called Moulmein, now Mawlamyine, several hundred miles to the south.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2016

After leaving Rangoon the 'Sunbeam' proceeded to Borneo, touching at Moulmein and Singapore.

From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)